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title: Uyakuva into embi eyaviwa ngu Hili wase Mambalwini. — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: Uyakuva into embi eyaviwa ngu Hili wase Mambalwini. Who acts: Uyakuva. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Proverbs and Figurative Expressions., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kaffir folk-lore, Proverbs and Figurative Expressions., sentence 56

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Uyakuva into embi eyaviwa ngu Hili wase Mambalwini.

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**Who acts:** Uyakuva · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Mambalwini

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This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Proverbs and Figurative Expressions.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Uyakuva), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg71335:26:56
# text = Uyakuva into embi eyaviwa ngu Hili wase Mambalwini.
1	Uyakuva	Uyakuva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	embi	embi	X	FW	_	5	compound	_	_
4	eyaviwa	eyaviwa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	ngu	ngu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	Hili	Hili	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	wase	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Mambalwini	Mambalwini	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | Uyakuva into embi eyaviwa ngu | Mambalwini |  |  |  | Hili *nsubj* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot mambalwini=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Project Gutenberg book 71335 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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